Preparation paid off for a team of East Carolina University engineering and technology students with a first-place finish at a national robot competition.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 8:51 am
By: ECU News Services
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The East Carolina softball team will play eight games as part of its 2019 fall exhibition schedule, according to an announcement Wednesday by fifth-year head coach Courtney Oliver.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2019 @ 8:56 am
By: ECU Sports
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Quite apart from the salutary effects of fitting individual students to the schools best suited for them, competition improves the quality of education provided.
Published: Monday, April 8th, 2019 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Every business has a story to tell; it is critical to be able to deliver a concise elevator pitch to investors, partners, or customers.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 8:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Four days ago, a date came and went without much mention. Yet it was so significant.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 @ 6:55 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The News & Observer recently ran an op-ed from Froma Harrop arguing that renewable energy has become competitive with traditional energy resources
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Americans are upset. Some are just mildly unhappy, others seem miserable, many are plain mad
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2017 @ 4:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spazz Fest VIII will kick off with a Pitch Competition on Saturday, March 25 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm at The Willis Building
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017 @ 9:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Let me see if I have this correct. The feminist have always attacked beauty contest as demeaning to women and now they have chosen a beauty contestant winner to represent them in their battle against the owner of a beauty contest.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 @ 9:13 am
By: Bobby Tony
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To mark National Teacher Appreciation Day, Governor McCrory today launched a petition urging North Carolinians to add their name to show their support of his plan to raise average teacher pay in North Carolina to $50,000 plus benefits
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2016 @ 1:35 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that for the second year in a row, North Carolina ranks first in the nation on a closely watched measurement of state business competitiveness
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 @ 6:35 am
By: McCrory Communications
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What is the role of competition in the marketplace? That's the question surrounding a recent uproar in Fuquay-Varina, a Raleigh suburb located in the southwest corner of Wake County. Food trucks - a Triangle staple - have arrived in the town, and some restaurant owners are not happy...
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2016 @ 3:29 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In Part 1, we examined how our legal system developed to the point where a statutory framework that blatantly favors one class of businesses over another is constitutionally permissible. Using the historical example of Nebbia v. New York, we saw that the Court altered its jurisprudence to become...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The 25th Annual Paramedic Competition was held Sunday in Greensboro at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center during the Emergency Medicine Today Conference, a conference which brings together North Carolina paramedics, EMTs and county emergency services medical directors.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 5:51 am
By: Chris Downey
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The 25th annual North Carolina Paramedic Competition gets under way Sunday at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, pitting the 2014 state champs from Rowan County EMS against five teams that clinched regional championships this summer for the right to challenge them.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 3:34 am
By: Chris Downey
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The Governor's Office issued the following statement after petitions were delivered calling on the governor to stop the issuance of specialty license plates that bear the image of the Confederate battle flag.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 3:33 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The Raleigh Chamber of Commerce recently sponsored a health care breakfast panel with three North Carolina hospital CEOs talking about how competition brings out the best in their health systems. Competition is healthy. Competition is a beautiful thing.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The East Carolina University School of Music Chamber Singers became the first American choir ever to win the 13th International Maribor Choral Competition Gallus held April 10-12 in Maribor, Slovenia.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 4:39 pm
By: Chris Downey
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A proposal before the General Assembly would petition Congress to call a convention of states that would entertain constitutional amendments that, if enacted by the convention, would be sent to state legislatures for ratification.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In only 3 days we go to the polls. It is hard to believe---except our airways are cluttered with commercials for this or that candidate.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 11:47 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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The North Carolina State Fair opens today, and Governor Pat McCrory is encouraging citizens from throughout the state to make the trip to the fairgrounds in Raleigh to be a part of this annual state tradition.
Published: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 7:38 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The 24th annual North Carolina Paramedic Competition gets under way Sunday, Oct. 5, at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center, pitting the 2013 state champs from Leland Fire/ Rescue in Brunswick County against five teams that clinched regional championships this summer for the right to challenge...
Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 @ 5:10 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Three East Carolina University undergraduate engineering students built a flying vehicle this summer that took second place in a unique national competition.
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 @ 6:38 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) issued the following statement of congratulations to Eastern North Carolina's winners and participants in the 2014 Congressional Art Competition.
Published: Saturday, May 31st, 2014 @ 1:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After Congress repealed in 1987 the federal mandate that states maintain a certificate-of-need program for health services, which had failed spectacularly to contain costs, 14 states opted to end their CON programs. North Carolina chose to remain a CON state.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although the 2013 legislative session produced many victories for economic freedom, a notable exception was the unwillingness of lawmakers to encourage competition and innovation in medical care.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nearly 500 high school students from across North Carolina and as far away as Virginia and South Carolina met in excitement Jan. 4 at East Carolina University to get a first glimpse into the 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2014 @ 8:07 am
By: ECU News Services
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Law school enrollment is declining at a marked rate. New American Bar Association figures show that last fall's first-year law student enrollment was 24 percent below the all-time high registered in 2010. There hasn't been a smaller entering class since 1975. Slowly but surely, it seems, Americans a
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John William Pope Center
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That sounds like a simple statement, and one with which most people would readily agree. In reality, however, the statement has multiple meanings. How you read it can say a lot about your views on Obamacare, health insurance, and reform initiatives.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Institute has praised a U.S. Senate hopeful for signing a petition to halt the onset of Common Core educational standards in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Common Core is a national effort, powered by private interests and the federal government, to impose untested academic content standards for English language arts and mathematics on all K-12 public schools across the nation.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 6:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Both the federal and state constitutions protect the right of North Carolinians to petition their government for redress of grievances.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the inalienable rights of citizenship in this nation is the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2013 @ 1:57 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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